Welcome home Simon Rattle, your return more than lived up to the hype | John Crace

This week author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir shared some Scandi stories, and a performance of Elgar brought tears to the eyesI spent the weekend in Iceland as a guest of the Reykjavik international literary festival. As so often, I had as much – if not more – fun meeting readers and authors from other countries as I did talking at my own events. Highlights also included whale watching, being taken on a day’s excursion around the local sights and avoiding eating the local del